Dietitian (Clinical)
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content.
We need to preserve all substantive info, no boilerplate. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to decide which sections to include.
Content:
- Summary: location, role description: Clinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care... interpret research and utilize whole health principles to develop patient-centered goals and improve outcomes.
- Qualifications: Applicants pending completion may be referred but not hired until requirements met. Basic Requirements: US Citizenship, RDN/RD registration, grandfathering provision, Grade Determinations: GS-11: Experience at least one year as RDN equivalent to next lower grade; Knowledge - Skills and Abilities: list of KSAs (a)-(f). Assignment description: Employees serve in Dietitian (Clinical) full performance level position; they conduct assessments, apply evidence-based, utilize virtual care tech, accountable for record keeping, ensure compliance with TJC, collect and analyze data, lead activities, collaborate with food service, etc.
- Preferred Experience: At least 1 year experience as registered dietitian equivalent to next lower grade, or education equivalent to 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education, or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in dietetics or closely related field.
- Reference link.
- Physical Requirements: work does not inherently include any physical requirements essential... pre-placement physical exam not required.
- Duties: Primary assignment includes mix of inpatient and outpatient care; coordinate nutritional care; interpret research; collaborate with Food Operations Section; list of duties bullet points (many). We need to put these in - .
- Work Schedule: Part-time - Tuesday and Friday - 7:30am-4:00pm and Saturday 7:30am-11:30am. Telework: Not Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- Functional Statement #: PD99529A. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.
We need to decide sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (qualifications/basic requirements), Skills (KSAs), Schedule (work schedule). Benefits? Not mentioned. Pay? Not mentioned (GS-11 grade but not salary). Could we include Pay? The posting mentions GS-11 but not salary; we should not create Pay section if not specific. So omit Pay and Benefits.
We need to avoid headings with filler. Use only sections with content.
Thus:
About the role
... summary ...
Responsibilities
- ... duties ...
Requirements
... basic requirements (citizenship, RDN/RD registration, grandfathering, GS-11 experience) ...
Skills
- ... KSAs (a)-(f) ...
Maybe also include Preferred Experience under Requirements or separate? Could be part of Requirements.
We also have Physical Requirements statement; could be included in Requirements as a note.
We also have Functional Statement # etc. Might be metadata; we could fold into a short under Requirements or maybe not needed. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include Functional Statement # etc in a short
maybe under Requirements or a separate "Details" section but we don't have a heading for that. Better to fold into a short
under Requirements or maybe a separate
after sections.
We also have Work Schedule: we need a Schedule section.
Thus:
Schedule
Part-time: Tuesday and Friday 7:30am‑4:00pm, Saturday 7:30am‑11:30am. Telework not available; this is not a virtual position.
We should not include "Telework: Not Available" as separate line; just incorporate.
Now we need to ensure we preserve all substantive info. Let's extract details.
Summary: "This position is located in Nutrition and Food Service at the Salisbury VA Medical Center - NC. Clinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health care providers - the Veteran - the Veteran's caregiver - and the community. They interpret research and utilize whole health principles to develop patient-centered goals and improve outcomes."
We can combine into a paragraph.
Responsibilities: list of duties from "Duties Primary assignment includes mix of inpatient and outpatient care..." and the bullet list.
Let's extract duties list:
- Conducts comprehensive nutrition assessments using the Nutritional Care Process (NCP) - including nutrition focused physical examinations - to establish a nutrition diagnosis and determine risk and/or degree of malnutrition
- Develops and implements Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to address the nutrition diagnosis - evaluates and monitors the effectiveness and outcomes of MNT interventions
- Modifies the plan as needed to achieve positive patient outcomes
- Calculates nutrient requirements and necessary diet restrictions or food and drug interactions tailoring the diet prescription to each individual patient
- Documents MNT in the medical record using the Assessment - Diagnosis - Intervention - Monitoring - Evaluation (ADIME) format
- Functions independently and accurately when record keeping
- Identifies patients in need of nutritional support and recommends the appropriate mode of support and communicates appropriately with the health care team
- Actively participates in formal and informal interdisciplinary team meetings
- Assesses educational needs and provides nutrition education/counseling for individuals and groups that is tailored to the Veteran(s)
- Utilizes virtual care technology to improve access to care
- Maintains productivity standards
- Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities and completes patient encounters using approved systems
- Ensures continuous improvement of safe and quality care of Veterans
- Leads activities in the implementation of new initiatives
- Uses data in the development of measures - data evaluation - and initiation of corrective actions
- Complies with The Joint Commission requirements and other accrediting agency standards to ensure safe and quality patient care
- Collaborates with the Food Operations Section and department leadership to enhance the Veterans' dining experience - support patient satisfaction - and serve as a liaison between clinical units and the Food Operations section
- May perform other related duties as assigned which are appropriate for this grade and assignment
Also earlier: "Primary assignment includes mix of inpatient and outpatient careClinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health care providers - the Veteran - the Veteran's caregiver - and the communityThey interpret research and utilize whole health principles to develop patient-centered goals and improve outcomes - collaborate with the Food Operations Section to enhance the Veterans' dining experience"
We can incorporate that as part of responsibilities paragraph before list.
Requirements: Basic Requirements: US Citizenship, RDN/RD registration, grandfathering provision, GS-11 experience: at least one year of experience as an RDN equivalent to the next lower grade. Also Knowledge - Skills and Abilities list (KSAs). We'll separate KSAs into Skills section.
Thus Requirements section: include citizenship, registration, grandfathering, GS-11 experience, physical requirements note (no inherent physical requirements, pre-placement physical exam not required). Also maybe reference link? Could be included as a short p.
Skills section: list KSAs (a)-(f) as bullet points.
Preferred Experience: could be included under Requirements as a note or separate? Could be part of Requirements but we have no heading for Preferred Experience; we could add a under Requirements.
Let's craft.
Now ensure we don't repeat content. Avoid duplication.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed.
Let's write:
About the role
This position is located in Nutrition and Food Service at the Salisbury VA Medical Center, NC. Clinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health‑care providers, the Veteran, the Veteran’s caregiver, and the community. They interpret research and utilize whole‑health principles to develop patient‑centered goals and improve outcomes.
Responsibilities
The primary assignment includes a mix of inpatient and outpatient care. Clinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health‑care providers, the Veteran, the Veteran’s caregiver, and the community; they interpret research and utilize whole‑health principles to develop patient‑centered goals and improve outcomes, and collaborate with the Food Operations Section to enhance the Veterans’ dining experience.
- Conducts comprehensive nutrition assessments using the Nutritional Care Process (NCP) – including nutrition‑focused physical examinations – to establish a nutrition diagnosis and determine risk and/or degree of malnutrition.
- Develops and implements Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to address the nutrition diagnosis; evaluates and monitors the effectiveness and outcomes of MNT interventions.
- Modifies the plan as needed to achieve positive patient outcomes.
- Calculates nutrient requirements and necessary diet restrictions or food and drug interactions, tailoring the diet prescription to each individual patient.
- Documents MNT in the medical record using the Assessment‑Diagnosis‑Intervention‑Monitoring‑Evaluation (ADIME) format.
- Functions independently and accurately when record keeping.
- Identifies patients in need of nutritional support and recommends the appropriate mode of support, communicating appropriately with the health‑care team.
- Actively participates in formal and informal interdisciplinary team meetings.
- Assesses educational needs and provides nutrition education/counseling for individuals and groups tailored to the Veteran(s).
- Utilizes virtual care technology to improve access to care.
- Maintains productivity standards.
- Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities and completes patient encounters using approved systems.
- Ensures continuous improvement of safe and quality care for Veterans.
- Leads activities in the implementation of new initiatives.
- Uses data in the development of measures, data evaluation, and initiation of corrective actions.
- Complies with The Joint Commission requirements and other accrediting agency standards to ensure safe and quality patient care.
- Collaborates with the Food Operations Section and department leadership to enhance the Veterans’ dining experience, support patient satisfaction, and serve as a liaison between clinical units and the Food Operations section.
- May perform other related duties as assigned that are appropriate for this grade and assignment.
Requirements
U.S. citizenship is required (non‑citizens may be appointed only when qualified citizens cannot be recruited per VA policy). Applicants must be a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) or Registered Dietitian (RD) registered with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR); eligibility may also be met via the grandfathering provision for current VHA employees. For the GS‑11 level, at least one year of experience as an RDN equivalent to the next lower grade is required. Physical requirements: the work does not inherently include any essential physical demands that cannot be performed with accommodation, and a pre‑placement physical examination is not required.
Preferred experience: at least one year of experience as a registered dietitian equivalent to the next lower grade, or education equivalent to three full years of progressively higher‑level graduate education, or a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree from an accredited institution in dietetics or a closely related field.
Reference: VA Qualification Standard for this occupation
Skills
- Skill in delivering patient care using the Nutrition Care Process (NCP) – assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation.
- Skill in interpreting research to apply evidence‑based nutrition practices to improve patient outcomes
About the role
... summary ...
Responsibilities
- ... duties ...
Requirements
... basic requirements (citizenship, RDN/RD registration, grandfathering, GS-11 experience) ...
Skills
- ... KSAs (a)-(f) ...
under Requirements or maybe not needed. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include Functional Statement # etc in a short
maybe under Requirements or a separate "Details" section but we don't have a heading for that. Better to fold into a short
under Requirements or maybe a separate
after sections. We also have Work Schedule: we need a Schedule section. Thus:
Schedule
Part-time: Tuesday and Friday 7:30am‑4:00pm, Saturday 7:30am‑11:30am. Telework not available; this is not a virtual position.
We should not include "Telework: Not Available" as separate line; just incorporate. Now we need to ensure we preserve all substantive info. Let's extract details. Summary: "This position is located in Nutrition and Food Service at the Salisbury VA Medical Center - NC. Clinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health care providers - the Veteran - the Veteran's caregiver - and the community. They interpret research and utilize whole health principles to develop patient-centered goals and improve outcomes." We can combine into a paragraph. Responsibilities: list of duties from "Duties Primary assignment includes mix of inpatient and outpatient care..." and the bullet list. Let's extract duties list: - Conducts comprehensive nutrition assessments using the Nutritional Care Process (NCP) - including nutrition focused physical examinations - to establish a nutrition diagnosis and determine risk and/or degree of malnutrition - Develops and implements Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to address the nutrition diagnosis - evaluates and monitors the effectiveness and outcomes of MNT interventions - Modifies the plan as needed to achieve positive patient outcomes - Calculates nutrient requirements and necessary diet restrictions or food and drug interactions tailoring the diet prescription to each individual patient - Documents MNT in the medical record using the Assessment - Diagnosis - Intervention - Monitoring - Evaluation (ADIME) format - Functions independently and accurately when record keeping - Identifies patients in need of nutritional support and recommends the appropriate mode of support and communicates appropriately with the health care team - Actively participates in formal and informal interdisciplinary team meetings - Assesses educational needs and provides nutrition education/counseling for individuals and groups that is tailored to the Veteran(s) - Utilizes virtual care technology to improve access to care - Maintains productivity standards - Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities and completes patient encounters using approved systems - Ensures continuous improvement of safe and quality care of Veterans - Leads activities in the implementation of new initiatives - Uses data in the development of measures - data evaluation - and initiation of corrective actions - Complies with The Joint Commission requirements and other accrediting agency standards to ensure safe and quality patient care - Collaborates with the Food Operations Section and department leadership to enhance the Veterans' dining experience - support patient satisfaction - and serve as a liaison between clinical units and the Food Operations section - May perform other related duties as assigned which are appropriate for this grade and assignment Also earlier: "Primary assignment includes mix of inpatient and outpatient careClinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health care providers - the Veteran - the Veteran's caregiver - and the communityThey interpret research and utilize whole health principles to develop patient-centered goals and improve outcomes - collaborate with the Food Operations Section to enhance the Veterans' dining experience" We can incorporate that as part of responsibilities paragraph before list. Requirements: Basic Requirements: US Citizenship, RDN/RD registration, grandfathering provision, GS-11 experience: at least one year of experience as an RDN equivalent to the next lower grade. Also Knowledge - Skills and Abilities list (KSAs). We'll separate KSAs into Skills section. Thus Requirements section: include citizenship, registration, grandfathering, GS-11 experience, physical requirements note (no inherent physical requirements, pre-placement physical exam not required). Also maybe reference link? Could be included as a short p. Skills section: list KSAs (a)-(f) as bullet points. Preferred Experience: could be included under Requirements as a note or separate? Could be part of Requirements but we have no heading for Preferred Experience; we could add aunder Requirements. Let's craft. Now ensure we don't repeat content. Avoid duplication. Now produce HTML fragment. We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed. Let's write:
About the role
This position is located in Nutrition and Food Service at the Salisbury VA Medical Center, NC. Clinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health‑care providers, the Veteran, the Veteran’s caregiver, and the community. They interpret research and utilize whole‑health principles to develop patient‑centered goals and improve outcomes.
Responsibilities
The primary assignment includes a mix of inpatient and outpatient care. Clinical Dietitians coordinate nutritional care of Veterans with other health‑care providers, the Veteran, the Veteran’s caregiver, and the community; they interpret research and utilize whole‑health principles to develop patient‑centered goals and improve outcomes, and collaborate with the Food Operations Section to enhance the Veterans’ dining experience.
- Conducts comprehensive nutrition assessments using the Nutritional Care Process (NCP) – including nutrition‑focused physical examinations – to establish a nutrition diagnosis and determine risk and/or degree of malnutrition.
- Develops and implements Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to address the nutrition diagnosis; evaluates and monitors the effectiveness and outcomes of MNT interventions.
- Modifies the plan as needed to achieve positive patient outcomes.
- Calculates nutrient requirements and necessary diet restrictions or food and drug interactions, tailoring the diet prescription to each individual patient.
- Documents MNT in the medical record using the Assessment‑Diagnosis‑Intervention‑Monitoring‑Evaluation (ADIME) format.
- Functions independently and accurately when record keeping.
- Identifies patients in need of nutritional support and recommends the appropriate mode of support, communicating appropriately with the health‑care team.
- Actively participates in formal and informal interdisciplinary team meetings.
- Assesses educational needs and provides nutrition education/counseling for individuals and groups tailored to the Veteran(s).
- Utilizes virtual care technology to improve access to care.
- Maintains productivity standards.
- Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities and completes patient encounters using approved systems.
- Ensures continuous improvement of safe and quality care for Veterans.
- Leads activities in the implementation of new initiatives.
- Uses data in the development of measures, data evaluation, and initiation of corrective actions.
- Complies with The Joint Commission requirements and other accrediting agency standards to ensure safe and quality patient care.
- Collaborates with the Food Operations Section and department leadership to enhance the Veterans’ dining experience, support patient satisfaction, and serve as a liaison between clinical units and the Food Operations section.
- May perform other related duties as assigned that are appropriate for this grade and assignment.
Requirements
U.S. citizenship is required (non‑citizens may be appointed only when qualified citizens cannot be recruited per VA policy). Applicants must be a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) or Registered Dietitian (RD) registered with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR); eligibility may also be met via the grandfathering provision for current VHA employees. For the GS‑11 level, at least one year of experience as an RDN equivalent to the next lower grade is required. Physical requirements: the work does not inherently include any essential physical demands that cannot be performed with accommodation, and a pre‑placement physical examination is not required.
Preferred experience: at least one year of experience as a registered dietitian equivalent to the next lower grade, or education equivalent to three full years of progressively higher‑level graduate education, or a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree from an accredited institution in dietetics or a closely related field.
Reference: VA Qualification Standard for this occupation
Skills
- Skill in delivering patient care using the Nutrition Care Process (NCP) – assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation.
- Skill in interpreting research to apply evidence‑based nutrition practices to improve patient outcomes